Students will summarize what they have learned about child soldiers and write a persuasive paragraph about why this is an important global issue (this will become part of the first paragraph of students' position paper).
Guiding Questions:
Why is the issue of child soldiers important for the UN to address?
What are the relevant goals of the UN? And of important documents that the UN has passed?
What are child soldiers? Why are child soldiers such an important problem?
Why is this an international issue not just a local one?
Content Objective:
Students will be able to explain why child soldiers is an important global issue and why their country cares about it.
Langauge Objective:
TBD depending on final agenda, see this article for support in writing language objectives.
Vocabulary:
No new terms (spiral relevant terms in the unit)
SEI Strategies:
Use a graphic organizer to help students organize their ideas. One graphic organizer to use might be a describing wheel. Students brainstorm ideas that 'fill the wheel and then use these ideas to write a paragraph that answers the question. 'Slices' of the wheel might include:
Definition of child soldiers
# of child soldiers in world
# of child soldiers in country
Why there are child soldiers
What child soldiers experience
Where there are child soldiers
Why child soldiers violates UDHR
Why child soldiers violates the Convention on the Rights of the child
etc..
Suggested Agenda:
1. Introduce the assignment: write a persuasive paragraph about why child soldiers is an important a global issue and why your country cares about it.
2. Tell students to go back through their notes and reading and highlight/annotate evidence that may be relevant to this paragraph and put their ideas in the describing wheel.
Title:
Summarizing the global issueGoal:
Students will summarize what they have learned about child soldiers and write a persuasive paragraph about why this is an important global issue (this will become part of the first paragraph of students' position paper).Content Objective:
Students will be able to explain why child soldiers is an important global issue and why their country cares about it.Langauge Objective:
TBD depending on final agenda, see this article for support in writing language objectives.Vocabulary:
No new terms (spiral relevant terms in the unit)SEI Strategies:
Use a graphic organizer to help students organize their ideas. One graphic organizer to use might be a describing wheel. Students brainstorm ideas that 'fill the wheel and then use these ideas to write a paragraph that answers the question. 'Slices' of the wheel might include:Suggested Agenda:
1. Introduce the assignment: write a persuasive paragraph about why child soldiers is an important a global issue and why your country cares about it.2. Tell students to go back through their notes and reading and highlight/annotate evidence that may be relevant to this paragraph and put their ideas in the describing wheel.
3. Students write paragraph individually
Homework: practice with operative clauses. Turn the statements show here (from part 6 of this document:
http://www.child-soldiers.org/global_report_reader.php?id=562) into operative clauses: